speancer wrote: ↑29 Oct 2020, 14:42
I dare to disagree
From my testing ASUS VG259QM (280 Hz) eats both XL2546 and Omen X 25f for breakfast alive when it comes to motion clarity and overdrive performance. From what I've seen, XL2546K is basically the same monitor, just with some cosmetic changes and a slightly faster panel, without DyAc motion clarity is not so great. These 240 Hz TN panels also suffer from
insane pixel inversion artifacts, seems like it's very common. I'm done with TNs. It's safe to say new-gen IPS panels are taking over, if you ask me. There's just no reason to look away from all the advantages IPS provides, especially considering how fast they've become these days. It amazes me how e-sport FPS pro gamers still hold on to their aged Zowie XL monitors (except guys from ENCE who switched to the new 360 Hz IPS ASUS monitors), there are way better options to choose from. Perhaps it's the sponsorship, maybe something else. Pros are not necessarily any more educated about their gear than an average person.
The XL2546 is using a different panel compared to the KD25F and the XL2546K.
I disagree with you, my VG259QM suffers from smearing at both 240 and 280hz, I actually find myself performing better in everything except tracking with my XG2402 (maybe because it's 2.6ms G2G in a 7.2ms refresh window?) which I'm still using as my main.
Especially flicking is unbelievably better with my 144hz TN compared to my 280hz IPS, I'm 100% more comfortable with a panel with perfect transitions inside the window than using one with 2x the refresh rate but that ends up smearing a lot.
That being said when I compare a 240hz TN like the XL2546k with a 240hz IPS like the MSI the first thing I notice is that not only G2G on the best overdrive is slower(1.14ms vs 2.56ms) but WBW and GBG are respectively 2.5x and 3.1x slower.
Even though ELMB-Sync is great I still don't think it's better than Dyac+ from the images that I see on the XL2546s and the XL2546k.
Total response times for 240hz IPS are similar to 240hz TNs but G2Gs are not fast enough for competitive 240hz gaming.
The slow WBW in this generation of IPS panels perfectly reflects in tests such as this
https://www.testufo.com/blurtrail where you can see multiple lines behind the main one, I'd argue that these panels are not fast enough for 240hz and neither for 240hz strobing, these panels should have been rated for 200/220hz.
Don't get me wrong, these panels are fast, but not as fast as TNs. Looking at the pictures of the PG259QN at 240hz which has response times more in line with TNs at this refresh rate I'm starting to think that the industry is trying to push these panels way too far in terms of refresh rate even if it means that the panel struggles to stay inside the refresh window.
I think 90% gtg transitions inside the window should be an industry standard for high refresh rate monitors, using % inside the window +1ms for benchmarks is almost as deceiving as claiming panels to be 1ms rated.
I'd genuinely like to see how these 240hz IPS monitors claimed to be 1ms response time look like with a normalized gamma response curve.
255 to 0 would probably look like white to dimgray even in a 4.17ms window.
Something that I respect about 240hz IPS is the improvement in input lag compared to some 240hz TNs(probably caused by faster signal processing with new hardware?)